diff --git a/man2/bind.2 b/man2/bind.2
index 65c9f2595..fe72bb646 100644
--- a/man2/bind.2
+++ b/man2/bind.2
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ bind \- bind a name to a socket
 .BI "int bind(int " sockfd ", const struct sockaddr *" my_addr \
 ", socklen_t " addrlen );
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-.B bind
+.BR bind ()
 gives the socket
 .I sockfd
 the local address
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ When a socket is created with
 it exists in a name space (address family) but has no name assigned.
 .PP
 It is normally necessary to assign a local address using
-.B bind
+.BR bind ()
 before a
 .B SOCK_STREAM
 socket may receive connections (see
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ The socket inode would reside on a read-only file system.
 The transparent proxy options are not described.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 SVr4, 4.4BSD (the
-.B bind
+.BR bind ()
 function first appeared in BSD 4.2).  SVr4 documents additional
 .BR EADDRNOTAVAIL , 
 .BR EADDRINUSE , 
@@ -200,9 +200,13 @@ and
 Unix-domain error conditions.
 .SH NOTE
 The third argument of
-.B bind
-is in reality an int (and this is what BSD 4.* and libc4 and libc5 have).
-Some POSIX confusion resulted in the present socklen_t, also used by glibc.
+.BR bind ()
+is in reality an
+.I int
+(and this is what BSD 4.* and libc4 and libc5 have).
+Some POSIX confusion resulted in the present 
+.IR socklen_t ,
+also used by glibc.
 See also
 .BR accept (2).
 .SH "SEE ALSO"